Accordingly, the Plan clearly states that fishery ports and storm shelter areas for fishing vessels are vital components of the fishery infrastructure and socio-economic infrastructure, identified as one of the three strategic breakthrough areas. They require investment to serve effective fishery exploitation activities, socio-economic development, and social security assurance, improving the material and spiritual lives of the people.
The Plan also outlines specific objectives for each phase and solutions for mobilizing resources for projects as well as comprehensive operational solutions for the future. Specifically:
The general objective by 2030 is to complete and modernize the fishery infrastructure, meeting the needs for fishery logistics services, ensuring food safety, reducing post-harvest losses, ensuring safety for fishing vessels and fishermen, promoting socio-economic development, enhancing fishery management efficiency, increasing international integration, adapting to climate change, protecting the environment and marine ecosystems, and contributing to national defense and security.
The specific objectives by 2030 include completing and effectively operating the fishery ports and storm shelter areas for fishing vessels nationwide as an integrated, industrialized, and modern system to meet the needs for docking, fishery logistics services, and development in an integrated manner, increasing the value of exploitation and utilization with the following key targets:
Ensuring a capacity for over 83,600 fishing vessels in storm shelter areas
The fishery port system ensuring the handling of 2.98 million tons of fishery products per year (including 100% of harvested marine products and part of marine aquaculture products); ensuring fishery management, meeting the requirements for traceability of harvested fishery products, and preventing illegal fishing activities.
The storm shelter areas for fishing vessels ensuring the capacity for over 83,600 fishing vessels to dock safely.
100% of fishery ports and storm shelter areas for fishing vessels allocated land and water areas according to the regulations in Articles 78 and 84 of the Fisheries Law 2017.
Additionally, the Plan aims to form important domestic and international trade hubs to drive the development of fishery industrial zones, coastal economic zones, major fishery centers linked with key fishing grounds; creating attraction and motivation for the fishery sector to develop efficiently and sustainably.
Formation of 5 major fishery centers linked with key fishing grounds
Improving infrastructure, enhancing the capacity to provide services at fishery ports, meeting the needs for fishery logistics, ensuring food safety, fulfilling nutritional and food needs for the people, integrating economic, tourism, cultural, social, and environmental hygiene development, building new rural areas and ensuring national defense and security in appropriate locations. Specifically:
All type I fishery ports in major fishery centers are built with complete and modern infrastructure, with synchronized and modernized loading and unloading systems, 100% mechanized.
All type I fishery ports are built with complete and modern infrastructure, with synchronized loading and unloading systems, 90% mechanized.
All type II fishery ports are built with synchronized infrastructure, mainly mechanized loading and unloading equipment at 70%.
Furthermore, the Plan aims to enhance and improve the management capacity of the fishery ports system and storm shelter areas for fishing vessels from central to local levels, meeting the requirements for fishery exploitation management at fishery ports, supervising the quantity of fishery products unloaded at ports, ensuring traceability of fishery products, and combating illegal fishing. Digital governance will be applied at all type I fishery ports.
During the period 2021 - 2025, the focus will be on completing the infrastructure of type I fishery ports at 5 major fishery centers, type I fishery ports, and regional storm shelter areas for fishing vessels continued from the previous period's plan, in places with large numbers of fishing vessels frequently docking; fishery port and storm shelter projects on island routes, and projects combining economic and defense security.
According to the Plan, during the period 2021 – 2030, 5 major fishery centers will be invested in synchronously within the fishery ports system, storm shelter areas for fishing vessels, fishery infrastructure, and logistics services in marine areas, specifically: Building the major fishery center in Hai Phong linked with the fishing grounds of the Gulf of Tonkin; Building the major fishery center in Da Nang linked with the East Sea and Hoang Sa fishing grounds; Building the major fishery center in Khanh Hoa linked with the South Central and Truong Sa fishing grounds; Building the major fishery center in Ba Ria - Vung Tau linked with the Southeastern fishing grounds; Building the major fishery center in Kien Giang linked with the Southwestern fishing grounds.
The Plan also specifies that by 2030, the entire country will have 173 fishery ports, including 39 type I ports, 80 type II ports, 54 type III ports, meeting the unloading needs of approximately 2,983,000 tons of fishery products per year and 160 storm shelter areas for fishing vessels (including 30 regional areas, 130 provincial areas), meeting the docking needs for approximately 90,600 fishing vessels.
By 2050, the fishery ports system will be developed synchronously, comprehensively, and modernly, on par with major fishery ports in the region and globally, meeting the green port criteria. Type I fishery ports in major fishery centers will play the role of international gateways, important links in the global fishery value chain, with high competitiveness.
In addition, the fishery ports and storm shelter areas for fishing vessels will be modernized on islands, especially in the two island districts of Truong Sa and Hoang Sa, contributing to environmental protection, marine ecosystem preservation, and national defense and security assurance.
Mobilizing investment resources from the central, local, and entire society
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The Plan proposes solutions to mobilize resources for implementing the content, objectives, and projects, according to which the central budget will allocate funds according to the medium-term and annual public investment plans for agriculture, forestry, salt production, irrigation, and fisheries to invest in and support the essential infrastructure items of fishery ports and storm shelter areas for fishing vessels. For type I, type II fishery ports and storm shelter areas, the central budget will support targeted investments for synchronously implementing items including: wharves; shore protection embankments, breakwaters, sand prevention embankments; ship channels, docking areas; ship mooring works; water supply and drainage systems, waste treatment; sorting houses; management buildings; yards and internal roads; lighting systems; buoy systems, signal lights, signal lights; specialized communication systems, and fire prevention and fighting.
For projects managed by localities, within the local investment responsibility, the central government will support investments according to public investment law provisions, not investing in all local projects.
The local budget will be allocated according to public investment and state budget laws or integrated from programs and projects to: invest in type III fishery ports and other items of type I, type II fishery ports, storm shelter areas for fishing vessels; allocate funds for compensation, site clearance, support, resettlement; and also allocate funds for annual maintenance of infrastructure items and management costs post-investment for fishery ports and storm shelter areas for fishing vessels invested with state budget funds according to state budget law provisions and other related legal provisions.
Mobilizing preferential loans, ODA capital from donors, and socialized capital to invest in constructing, upgrading, and expanding fishery ports ensuring environmental protection, food safety, and investing in storm shelter areas to prevent and mitigate natural disaster risks, respond to climate change.
Van Tho (Hai Dang translated)